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Chairman Comer Subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton, Former U.S. Attorneys General and FBI Directors, and Records Related to Jeffrey Epstein (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-subpoenas-bill-and-hillary-clinton-former-u-s-attorneys-general-and-fbi-directors-and-records-related-to-jeffrey-epstein/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p68#a250805p68

Wir als letzte Generation, die etwas effektiv gegen die #Klimakatastrophe der kommenden Jahrzehnte und Jahrhunderte tun hätten können, haben bewusst und freiwillig aufgegeben:
https://www.…

NFL issues ban on ammonia inhalers, smelling salts during games due to negative side effects

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-issues…

Directed evolution effectively selects for DNA based physical reservoir computing networks capable of multiple tasks
Tanmay Pandey, Petro Feketa, Jan Steink\"uhler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04000

Directed evolution effectively selects for DNA based physical reservoir computing networks capable of multiple tasks
DNA and other biopolymers are being investigated as new computing substrates and alternative to silicon-based digital computers. However, the established top-down design of biomolecular interaction networks remains challenging and does not fully exploit biomolecular self-assembly capabilities. Outside of the field of computation directed evolution has been used as a tool for goal directed optimization of DNA sequences. Here, we propose integrating directed evolution with DNA-based reservoir com…

arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 27770 nodes and 352807 edges.
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Adaptive Data-Borrowing for Improving Treatment Effect Estimation using External Controls
Qinwei Yang, Jingyi Li, Peng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03282 https://

Adaptive Data-Borrowing for Improving Treatment Effect Estimation using External Controls
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) often exhibit limited inferential efficiency in estimating treatment effects due to small sample sizes. In recent years, the combination of external controls has gained increasing attention as a means of improving the efficiency of RCTs. However, external controls are not always comparable to RCTs, and direct borrowing without careful evaluation can introduce substantial bias and reduce the efficiency of treatment effect estimation. In this paper, we propose …

I just checked the files from our vacation recently. One day we just did a short cycling loop in the neighbourhood.
Actually - nothing really exciting for us. But after a while I thought about all you, international friends here. And I assumed that most of you have probably no clue about my direct neighbourhood and the villages around.
So enjoy a short video:

Toward a Graph-Theoretic Model of Belief: Confidence, Credibility, and Structural Coherence
Saleh Nikooroo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03465 https://arxiv.o…

Toward a Graph-Theoretic Model of Belief: Confidence, Credibility, and Structural Coherence
Belief systems are often treated as globally consistent sets of propositions or as scalar-valued probability distributions. Such representations tend to obscure the internal structure of belief, conflate external credibility with internal coherence, and preclude the modeling of fragmented or contradictory epistemic states. This paper introduces a minimal formalism for belief systems as directed, weighted graphs. In this framework, nodes represent individual beliefs, edges encode epistemic relat…

Lately I've been approached by #UNICEF volunteer. I wanted to help. It turned out the only way to do that was… to sign a "direct debit" form. Of course, I can't imagine giving someone my PII in the middle of a street, and signing authorizations like that. She was particularly insistent too; I managed to get her to tell me that I can get the account number for regular wire from the website.
Well, I understand the logic there. They need repeated donations, not one-time. A lot of people would just forget about it after talking to her. However, if they fill the form there, they will have to actively put an effort to cancel it afterwards. And if I understood her correctly, she suggested you can cancel anytime by calling *them* — so effectively giving them an additional opportunity to convince you not to. Still, I am dismayed by such psychological games.

Directed Grammar-Based Test Generation
Lukas Kirschner (Saarland University,University of Luxembourg), Ezekiel Soremekun (Singapore University of Technology,Design)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01472

Directed Grammar-Based Test Generation
To effectively test complex software, it is important to generate goal-specific inputs, i.e., inputs that achieve a specific testing goal. However, most state-of-the-art test generators are not designed to target specific goals. Notably, grammar-based test generators, which (randomly) produce syntactically valid inputs via an input specification (i.e., grammar) have a low probability of achieving an arbitrary testing goal. This work addresses this challenge by proposing an automated test genera…